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I usually add margins to the models, how much did you add?

I saw @max1zzz had a try at OpenSCAD, to generate PGA sockets, so I helped and cleaned up the code, made it more parametric, so we can now 3D-print sockets for all those… The code is here.

I received the PCBs and *finally* some chips, after a 3rd order (1st never shipped, 2nd never arrived…). Looks promising:

If only my ISP would accept the account validation mail from PCBWay…

I got a routed PCB, but so tiny it'd probably wouldn't be accepted by fabs… luckily it seems possible to do your own cuts for castellated PCBs, which means panelizing them manually would make them larger and probably easier to pass the validation. I should try that soon.

Been sidetracked by the companion chip (0120), which seemed easier to tackle first.

I've been distracted from EGRET woes by that small chip next to it… I've since figured out the pinout and characteristics, and found a potential candidate for replacement. But of course it doesn't have the same pinout, and of course it's also SOIC-8, because the smaller TSSOP version is...

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If the legs are long enough, maybe a 1.2mm interposer PCB might be enough? You can check with a piece of cardboard, make holes to get the pins through, and see if they go down to the other face of the logic board. It will be a bit more fragile, but it should work.

Discord user CJ posted a list there of capacitor series that were found to be leaking, some already mentioned on the badcaps forums, and agreed to have it posted there. Feel free to add more as you find them. Chemi-con - LXF, SXE, SXF, SXG, TXF Elna - RC2S, RC3S, RSE, RSG, RSH NIC Components...

Last week-end we had 65 people gathering in a minuscule town in France with old computers… Some people took photos. I fixed some stuff there (like an N64 PSU brick, an Amiga RAM card…), and we had a lot of fun.

Been working on making fixes on 6805 support in Radare2 to help with reverse engineering…

Oh I have a Tanzania based clone, I'll have to dump that one I suppose.

I've checked many schematics and compiled the pinouts, and this is just a myth, it's the exact same uC with the same pinout and just an Apple reference painted over. They just changed the function of some pin but that's it.

So, I had some things ordered from uncle ali, some arrived already. If other activities permit I might find the time to build a programmer. I also need to design a same-footprint SOIC-28 socket because those don't exist.

Well it's the occasion to fix r2 as well. Is the caboose one in the Mac_ROMs file? I only find 3 EGRET and 3 CUDA files in there. Plus if I can find what I want we won't even have to recode this anyway.

Well, why not… Anyway you don't have to go to Mastodon, you can go to Pleroma, Misskey or some other platform that are also part of the great Fediverse.

I looked at the disassembly on github mentioned on MLA, but it's really partial and only for one version. I then looked at Radare2 to automate this but the 680x backend seems really unfinished, it even stripped the last character of each disassembly line… So this can take a while as I'll have to...

Last I looked at it, there was one HC05 chip that was supposedly still compatible with the original HC05E1 that Apple used that possibly could use the binaries as is. Haven't had the time to investigate any further. Seems UTSource (hmm, right… "used" OTP?) & octoparts still has some, but I never...

I have a 180c open on my table here and some posts are partially broken, but I wanted to try and glue them back first. Anyway, can't look at it until next week.